What wildlife do you see on your commute

ghandissandal

Newbie here. Just started commuting and wondered what wildlife you see on your way. Mine is normally loads of rabbits but nearly knocked a fox down today!

notsoblue

Parakeets, bloody loads of them in Hyde Park/Richmond Park!

Matt the Tester

usually the next door neighbour! she keeps shittin all over the bloody place!

nstevo

I had to cycle round a gruffalo eating a jackelope this morning! Nothing unusual. :twisted:

Splottboy

From my front/back garden...

Fox, herons, buzzards, eels, newts, pigeons, doves, plovers, cats, sheep, slugs, snails, cows and calf in our field, and Whispering Bats in our attic.

Oh, and light aircraft from C'fon airport and Hawk trainers, big bloody Yank F 16's or something like em from RAF Valley. Sikorsky Jolly Green Giant yesterday and smaller choppers most days.

Prob Prince "whats-his-name" in Sea King too.

See most of this riding too.

Cafewanda

White Van Man

prawny

This week i have seen 1 badger (dead) 1 fox (dead) several unidentifyable birds (too dead to identify) several squirrels (dead) 1 cat (dead) and tonight on the way home a ford fiesta (very dead)

rolf_f

Best I've seen have been Red Kites - often barely 50 feet overhead. Deer as well though those are really just very large rats.

Frodo1095

Wallabies, wild pigs, hawks and possums mainly.

prj45

Frodo1095 wrote:

Wallabies, wild pigs, hawks and possums mainly.

And from what remember of Rotorua lots of steam!

nstevo

I saw a wild welshman today. Very nasty.

davis

Deer, squirrels (too many of the little buggers), foxes, birds.. including the odd demented pheasant. llama, cows, horses (too many). The odd dead badger and a dead rat or two. Oh yeah, bloody rabbits too.

Once in winter I was riding down the middle of a snow-covered lane with a barn owl (well, definitely an owl) about 10 feet in front of me just above head height. Utterly noiseless, and stunning. That image'll stay with you.

Kieran_Burns

I have dodged:

Rabbits
Hares
Sheep
Cows
Horses
Mental teenage girls. (bugger off the lot of you)
Ghosts (go look it up...)
Foxes
Snails / Slugs - thousands and thousands and thousands of the fecking squishy little feckers all on one morning
Eaten more midges than I care to think about


I miss that Bridleway....

Frodo1095

And from what remember of Rotorua lots of steam!

Also bubbling mud as I can ride past some of the thermal areas to get to work, fun on a cold morning as the steam can obscure the track for brief periods when the wind blows it your way and the last thing you want to do is ride off into hot bubbling sulphurous mud/water.

prj45

Frodo1095 wrote:

Also bubbling mud as I can ride past some of the thermal areas to get to work, fun on a cold morning as the steam can obscure the track for brief periods when the wind blows it your way and the last thing you want to do is ride off into hot bubbling sulphurous mud/water.

Now that's a commute I'd like to join you on. Surely the coolest commute on the board!

Paul E

This morning a dead squirrel, but sometimes the local fox who is just about fearless and walks down the main shopping road near my house in the late evening without a care int he worlds.

Ohh and scabby pidgeons as I go past trafalgar sq.

Zephr

I see a fair amount of muppets on a daily basis. does that count?

jimmypippa

Does anyone see any pond life? Often seen near Wetherspoons.

Paul E

Zephr wrote:

I see a fair amount of muppets on a daily basis. does that count?

Coming from the same way as you, yes it does...

Oddjob62

The odd giraffe depending on the time of day, but can often hear the monkeys screaming.

Oh and a couple of Zebras the other day.

Splottboy

Giraffes? You got some neck, sonny!

Norky

davis wrote:

Once in winter I was riding down the middle of a snow-covered lane with a barn owl (well, definitely an owl) about 10 feet in front of me just above head height. Utterly noiseless, and stunning. That image'll stay with you.

Wasn't I once riding with you when some bird of prey took off out of a hedge (it seems) and flew along keeping pace the other side of the hedge (I suppose hoping we might flush out something small, furry and scared)? Aye, moments like that are kind of special.

Oddjob62

Splottboy wrote:

Giraffes? You got some neck, sonny!

My commute takes me past London Zoo... part of the Africa enclosure is right next to the road.

meanredspider

Deer, foxes, rabbits, hares, pheasants, various big birds of prey (red kites mostly), various farm animals (cows, highland coos, sheep, bulls, horses, dogs, cats - though they don't count as wildlife), dolphins, seals

AndyManc

Mostly these .




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cyclingmev

sheeps (multi-breed), horses (gypsy cobs), cows (bigs uns and little uns), donkeys (Ben and John, combined age of 65), hedgepigs (usually of the ex variety), barn owl (he's very good at hovering above you when bikeling - that's me bikeling, not him) and not forgetting 'the beast' (uber fast Ribble bikelist dude)...